O'Halloran, Kieran.

Critical discourse analysis and language cognition / Kieran O'Halloran. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2003 - vii, 280 p. : ill ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-272) and index.

Acknowledgements - 1. Introduction - Section A: The interpretation stage in CDA - 2. CDA and manipulative news text - 3. Symbolicism - 4. The symbolicism of CDA -- Section B: Newer approaches to language cognition: implications for CDA - 5. Connectionism - 6. Cognitive linguistics - 7. Psycholinguistic evidence for inference generation -- Section C: The idealised reader framework - 8. Contructing the idealised reader: compatibilities between connectionism, cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics - 9. Further constructing the idealised reader: compatibilities with relevance theory - 10. Detecting news text likely to mystify in reading for gist - 11. Conclusion.

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Critical discourse analysis.
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Connectionism.
Cognitive grammar.
Psycholinguistics.
Relevance.

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